Senior FPGA Design Engineer / Hardware Engineer

TLDR

Collaborate with traders to exploit FPGA systems, enhancing existing strategies and enabling new trading opportunities in a competitive trading environment.

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

Overview:

Where technology meets trading, the Maven FPGA team is pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and proprietary designs to maintain and gain advantage in an increasingly competitive environment. With operations in London, New York, Hong Kong and Chicago, we build technology in support of global trading operations across multiple exchanges, asset classes, and trading strategies. Our teams are small and nimble, with a firm commitment to growth, and a strategic view of investment in people, tools, and the necessary platforms to extend our leadership.

The Role:

Within our team, you will work with traders and technologists to seek and exploit opportunities to gain competitive advantage through FPGA systems. By means of reduced latencies, higher throughput, or increased robustness, you will enable the company to increase the efficiency of existing strategies and open up entirely new trading opportunities previously inaccessible. With a number of greenfield projects in scope, candidates who are proactive and self-driven can grow into leadership roles for the firm’s future. Whilst financial experience is a plus, your engineering talents, problem solving abilities, and eagerness to take on new challenges are of significantly higher importance to us.

The skills you will have:

  • SystemVerilog
  • Source control management
  • 5+ years FPGA experience
  • Automated verification
  • HLS or other DSP flow experience for FPGA
  • Comfortable attacking new and unfamiliar problems
  • Interest in trading

Things we would like to see but are not essential:

  • Python, TCL
  • Low latency design
  • ASIC
  • Network and packet processing
  • Financial market data
  • Trading systems
  • Software development

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive compensation 
  • Group Pension plan 
  • Annual discretionary bonus 
  • Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
  • 25 days’ annual leave
  • Informal dress code 
  • Private healthcare and life assurance
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Monthly company events
  • Private Gym

Benefits

Free Meals & Snacks

Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks.

Health Insurance

Private healthcare and life assurance

Other Benefit

Private Gym

Paid Time Off

25 days’ annual leave

Maven is a proprietary trading firm that specializes in deploying capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies, making it a key liquidity provider for derivatives. With a focus on high-performance trading technology and innovative execution methods, we consistently rank among the top liquidity providers in the markets we operate. Our approach combines trading expertise and advanced tech to redefine the standards of efficiency in financial markets.

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